# Ha! Sarah Palin caught using sockpuppet Facebook account

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**Created:** [February 22, 2011, 6:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ha-sarah-palin-caught-using-sockpuppet-facebook-account/572260 "2011-02-22T18:39:23Z")\
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**Post date:** [February 22, 2011, 8:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ha-sarah-palin-caught-using-sockpuppet-facebook-account/572260/18 "2011-02-22T20:00:53Z")

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> [@Hentor\_the\_Barbarian](#):
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> So… proposed law that would redefine intentional fetal death as murder and thus require investigation of miscarriages? No big deal - no changes even worth taking the time to consider. It can all be easily hand-waved away.
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> Sarah Palin accused of having a sock on Facebook? Proof! I want proof! I want an investigation before I’ll even consider believing it.

That’s not at all what I said about the “fetal death” law.

> [@Small government advocate wants police to harass distraught women](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/small-government-advocate-wants-police-to-harass-distraught-women/572176/53):
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> There’s much to criticize in the bill that’s the subject of the OP. The bill’s text inveighs against _Roe v. Wade_ and argues that the Supreme Court lacked power and jurisdiction to decide it. It seeks to criminalize abortion, and rename it as “prenatal murder” in the criminal code.
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> All of these actions are either null, or forbidden to a state under federal constitutional law. A thread complaining about these flaws would get no reaction (except agreement) from me.

But I do disagree with the “and thus would require the investigation of miscarriages” claim, and have provided numerous cites in that thread to show how this part of the claim isn’t true.

Here, I point out that the smoking gun appears to have been provided by an enemy of Palin’s. I’m not myself a Facebook users, but I was under the impression it’s easy to “friend” people. Couldn’t I “friend” Palin’s father if I wanted to? How is that evidence of the account authenticity?

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